Humanism and Hellenism
Lucian and the Afterlives of Greek in More’s Utopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9320627 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Raisch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 927-958 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ELH (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8304 • E-ISSN: 1080-6547 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/elh.2016.0035 |
| OpenAlex | W2560095817 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This paper reexamines the influence of Plato and the Greek tradition on Thomas More’s Utopia, arguing that Plato’s reception within the Greek world profoundly shaped how More would have encountered Plato’s writings in early sixteenth-century England. Focusing on Lucian and Diogenes Laertius in particular, I demonstrate that their whimsical rewritings of Plato’s life and works, and the self-conscious belatedness of their postclassicism, guided Utopia’s own speculative fictionality and preoccupation with the past. In uncovering More’s attentiveness to this historically layered Greek tradition, I explore new paradigms for how scholarly recovery and imaginative representation interact in early modernity
Ancient Greek · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Humanism · Literature · Modernity · Politics · Representation (politics · Theology · Utopia · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy
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Utopia through Italian Eyes
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The Portrait of Homer in Strabo’s Geography
G reek literacy in sixteenth‐century E ngland
The Second Sophistic
Plato's Atlantis Story and the Birth of Fiction
Greek Nonsense in More’s Utopia
The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |